Deborah Loewenberg Ball receives the presidential gavel from Vivian Gadsden
On May 1, 2017, at the conclusion of the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting, Deborah Loewenberg Ball assumed her role as president of AERA. She succeeds Vivian L. Gadsden, William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
“I am honored to serve as president of AERA,” Ball said. “I am excited for the year ahead and look forward to the 2018 annual meeting at which we will consider the struggles over and the promises of public education. We will work to combine critical examination with positive action and hope, as we leverage the work of scholars in our field to realize the crucial role that public education can play in creating a just world. Working with my program chairs Carla O’Connor and Suzanne Wilson, I look forward to building on the work that Vivian Gadsden did in her term as president, as well as on that of others who have served in this position before us.”
The 2018 AERA Annual Meeting with be held from Friday, April 13, to Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in New York City and will focus on the theme, “The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education.”